Experiment. Technê. Imagination, the first personal Exhibition of Maria Panțur (PhD Student, 1st year) and curated by Ioana Stelea (lecturer PhD at UNArte, FADD | CSM). The exhibition was hosted between the 5th and 28th of March 2022, by the Icehouse Gallery of the Culture Center Brâncoveneşti Palaces at the Gates of Bucharest.
Starting from the raw material (melted glass at 1200-1300 degrees, metamorphosed into rods, glass bubbles and frit), the event will reveal a number of glass-working techniques (thermos-forming, glass engraving, glass painting, gas-lamp work, pâte de verre and the mixing of these techniques). With the help of these techniques, the first experiments came to be, the basis on which identity was created. Time helped sediment the acquisition of these techniques and imagination helped materialize the silhouette from the Icehouse Gallery of the Experiment. Technê. Imagination exhibition.
What is definitively lacking is the text, the theory, and the explanation itself. The details/descriptions/labels of the pieces… don’t exist.
Lessage:’’An exhibition, for instance, should also be recognized and valued as a possible research output.’’
The finish of this important event of this artist’s life took place on March 27th, at 4:00 pm, a reunion, free discussion and a moment meant for catching our breath, for learning about ourselves and for learning in general, but also for the interpretation and revelation of a fragment of Maria Panțur.
“Presence is all that matters here, ideally one would even be without their own thoughts (the music will help). The most important element is the feeling, the act of observation, and the understanding of the pieces correlated with sight and imagination. What is not presented in the exhibition is either self-explanatory or left to the viewer’s imagination to encourage a process of self-reflection and revelation. The exhibition is itself a personal reflection on my own path, which I no longer wish to look upon in private, but which I wish to share with the public. We often find out more about ourselves by putting ourselves aside, separating from ourselves, by putting faith in external reality and detaching ourselves from our subjective reflection.”
(Maria Panțur)
